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The Eternal Child (Peter Pan) can be rescued ?

How can the Peter Pan syndrome be healed? Has the man affected by it only two possibilities left: either remain immature and irresponsible for the rest of his life or become a sad and embittered old man?

The answer was yes, of course, the Eternal Child (Peter Pan) can be rescued form his condition. Howl’s Moving Castle, Hayao Miyazaki’s film came as the perfect example to illustrate a cure of such a syndrome.

We stated that only the love and courage of a woman can rescue a man trapped in this elusive complex. Since the Peter Pan has remained a child for ever, he needs to be helped, in the movie, Sophie fights and pushes Howl to recover his wounded heart. However it has to be a strong woman, passionate and generous.

The formula sounds nice and relatively obvious, but then on what depends that some Peter Pans are saved and others are not? We know that the risk for a woman involved with a Peter Pan is to become either a Mother or a Victim, then, How can a woman know at what moment she can react and fight to transform her Peter Pan into an integrated man?
The only possible answer is: It is a mystery.

Although this sounds elusive and snobbish, the reply is perfect if we know what the word mystery means: something that cannot be traduced in an objective formula, it is something that can only be experienced and discovered at a critical moment by the person himself/herself, it comes as a revelation form the deep unconscious. Maybe this is the reason why so many women fail to rescue their relationships with immature men. If there was an objective formula for it that anybody could apply, there would be no more Peter Pans left in the world.

On the other hand, for Jung, who talked about the Eternal Child (Puer Aeternus in Latin), stated that the unconscious needed mysteries to be able to express its potential. Without mystery there is no creativity; no art would possible without it. He went so far as to affirm that some wounds cannot disappear because we all need them to be pushed to a constant quest of our Self (real identity).

In the next article we will explore Sophie’s (How’s Moving Castle heroine) personality to find more keys about her own revelation.

in Japanese

by xavier_astro | 2009-11-11 00:00  

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